Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26/11/1997 - 216 من الصفحات In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs. |
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الصفحة i
... with more success than in later times , to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs . JOHN SPENCER HILL is professor of English , University of Ottawa . McGill - Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Volumes.
... with more success than in later times , to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs . JOHN SPENCER HILL is professor of English , University of Ottawa . McGill - Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Volumes.
الصفحة ii
... Religion Volumes in the McGill - Queen's Studies in the History of Religion have been supported by the Jackman Foundation of Toronto . SERIES ONE G.A. Rawlyk , Editor 1 Small Differences Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants , 1815-1922 ...
... Religion Volumes in the McGill - Queen's Studies in the History of Religion have been supported by the Jackman Foundation of Toronto . SERIES ONE G.A. Rawlyk , Editor 1 Small Differences Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants , 1815-1922 ...
الصفحة vi
... religion ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7735-1661-1 1. European literature - Renaissance , 1450-1600 - History and criticism . 2. Humanism in literature . 3. Infinite in literature . 4. Time in literature . I ...
... religion ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7735-1661-1 1. European literature - Renaissance , 1450-1600 - History and criticism . 2. Humanism in literature . 3. Infinite in literature . 4. Time in literature . I ...
الصفحة xii
... religious humanism that deeply influenced Christian thinkers for two hun- dred years . - The next section of the argument ( chap . 4 ) explores the beginnings of the tension , particularly after Galileo's invention of the telescope ...
... religious humanism that deeply influenced Christian thinkers for two hun- dred years . - The next section of the argument ( chap . 4 ) explores the beginnings of the tension , particularly after Galileo's invention of the telescope ...
الصفحة xiii
... religious poets , whether Anglican or Puritan , conceived their art . Protestant emphasis on salvation history and the Pauline stages of salvation set out in Romans ( 8 : 29-30 ) - foreknowledge , predestination , calling ...
... religious poets , whether Anglican or Puritan , conceived their art . Protestant emphasis on salvation history and the Pauline stages of salvation set out in Romans ( 8 : 29-30 ) - foreknowledge , predestination , calling ...
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TIME | 67 |
Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic | 137 |
Translations from Pascals Pensées | 154 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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Adam Anglican argues Aristotelian Aristotle astronomy Augustine Augustine's Augustinian believe Bergson centre century Christ Christian Clement Clement of Alexandria conception consciousness cosmology cosmos creation Creator Cusa¹ Cusanus Cusanus's death distentio animi divine doctrine duration earth élan vital eschatology eternity existence expectatio experience finite future Gnostic God's grace Greek hand hath heaven Holy human humanist idea imagination infinite intuition kairos knowledge living Macbeth man's metaphysical methexis Milton mind modern motion mystery nature Nicholas of Cusa Paradise Lost paradox Pascal past Pensées philosophy physical plays Plotinus poem present prevenient grace providential Puritan reality religion Renaissance literature revealed salvation secular sense Shakespeare sola fide sonnet soul space spatial infinity sphere Stromateis symbol teleology temporal tempus thee theme theology things thir thou thought tion tradition Traherne transcendent Troilus and Cressida truth understanding unfolding universe vision Winter's Tale words καὶ